MEAT EXPORT SEASON

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 251, 18 December 1940, Page 8

MEAT EXPORT SEASON

FIRST TWO MONTHS KILLINGS

INCREASE IN PORK

Killings for export at New Zealand freezing works this season from October Ist, to November 30th ; according to the returns issued by the New Zealand Meat Producers Board, show a total of 449,585 freight carcases. Killings during the first two months of the 1939-40 •;on Ave re 34,734 freight carcases in excess of this season's total. Lamb killings were confined almost wholly to the North Island with a total of 156,835 carcases com pared with 361,880 carcases for the same period last season. . Wether mutton killings this season have been 1050 carcases compared with 29,028 in the corresponding period of last year; and ewe mutton 3240 carcases compared with 8407. There was a substantial advance in connection with pork. Details are as follows, the corresponding figures for last season being shown j in parentheses:— Nth Island Sth Island Porkers 2,872 (4,012) 227 (260) Baconei*s 65,748 (41,917) 1,699 (477) Choppers 2,662 (881) . 38 ( 15) Frozen beef production for the two months reached 14,257 quarters, compared with 3214 last season Killings of other classes of " meat (expressed in 601b freight carcases) from Ist October till 30th November, 1940 (with figures for the previous season in parentheses) are as follows:— Boneless Beef 33,454 (50,803) Boneless Bobby Veal 73,606 (56,803) Snudries 24,890 (24,780)